Improvement in cotton-bale ties



` UNITED STATE-s DAVID d. oLIvIsTEAD, oF

VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEIIVI ENT IN COTTON-BALE T|ES. v

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 19,709, dated March 23, 1858.

To (LZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G. OLMSTEAD, of Vicksburg, in the county of Warren and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and improved tie to be used in baling cotton, hay, and other materials; and. I do herebye declare that the following is a full and exact descrip tion thereof, reference being had. to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speci- Iication- Figure l being a plan of the tie; Fig. 2,*a longitudinal section thereofvin the plane indi cated by the line x x, Fig. l; Fig. 3, a similar,r

-Inetal of sufficient size and thickness to resist the pressure which is made within it. The

rests against the face of the said clasp.v The band is then carried around the bale or package and brought to the original starting-point, when it is passed through the clasp side` by side with thel opposite extremity, as seen in Fig. l. Then the band is thus `drawn to its utmost tension, a Wedge, C, which ts closely in the remaining space in the clasp, is inserted between the band and the oppositeV side of the said clasp, (which, as before mentioned, inclines to meet it,) and thus prevents the band rfrom being drawn back. rIhe band is then bent over/the head of the wedge andl cut off.

Instead of placing the wedge on one side of the ends of the band, as just explained, it may be inserted between them, as'represented in Fig. 2.

.In making a tie in this manner the whole strength of the band is preserved, as no portion of it is cut away; and it can break only when the strain overcomes the strength of the material of which it is made.

What I claim as .my invention, and desire space inclosed by the opposite sides of the said to secure by Letters Patent, is-

clasp is of wedge shape, being wider at one Y end than at the other,for purposes hereinafter described.

The band B, which encircles the bale or package and retains it in its compressed shape, may be made of hoop-iron, or thin metal which will bend easily and yet retain sufficient strength to resist the strain caused by the elasticity of the bale. One end of the band being bent at right angles to its length, as seen at a, is then inserted through the open space of the clasp The clasp A and wedge C, arranged and operating in combination With the bandB, With its bent extremities c a, substantially in the manner and for the purposewherein specified.

The above specification of my improved cotton-bale tie signed by me this 15th day of August, 1857.

DAVID e. oLMsTnAD.

Witnesses:

R. F. OsGooD,

A till the bent extremity c of the saidband J. Q. ADAMS. 

